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Taobao, 7-Eleven offer new payment scheme for Hong Kong's online shoppers
Customers of the mainland online retail platforms can now settle their purchases through the HK store giant
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The Alibaba Group's internet retail subsidiaries, Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com have teamed up with convenience store giant 7-Eleven to deliver a more efficient payment tool for Hong Kong consumers to shop online.
The new Alipay card was jointly unveiled yesterday by the two Taobao companies and 7-Eleven, which has started offering the electronic voucher at its more than 920 stores in the city.
"Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com combined have already exceeded one million registered users in Hong Kong," said Daphne Lee, the director for Taobao's international business.
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"The majority of these are active users, who have the option of using this new secure payment method to shop from the more than six million sellers on the two online shopping platforms."
Registered users in Hong Kong can pay with their Visa, MasterCard or JCB credit cards for purchases made on Taobao Marketplace, the mainland's most popular consumer-to-consumer online marketplace, and Tmall.com the market's biggest business-to-consumer online shopping website.
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The two platforms combined offer more than 800 million product listings.
Lee said the Alipay card provided local consumers, who opt not to pay with their credit card, to conveniently top up, or add more money, on their Alipay accounts used for shopping online.
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